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Tests made in Germany:
International use of psychological tests from the German-speaking countries
Leibniz Institute for Psychology Information (ZPID), University of Trier
Method
Results
Conclusion
References
ICP 2012
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o Analysis of PSYNDEX Tests database, containing 6,500 records of
psychological tests from the German-speaking countries. Limiting
criteria: N = 1,152 tests developments from German-speaking
countries (Austria, Germany or Switzerland) published between 1951
and 2010 in German language: = 115 with (vs. = 1,037 without)
English translation.
o Analysis of PsycINFO database, containing over 3 million records of
psychological publications (international coverage with Anglo-American
bias). Limiting criteria: N = 670 research studies from German- (see
above) vs. N = 43 from English-speaking countries (Australia, Canada,
England, Great Britain, Ireland, New Zealand, North America, United
Kingdom, & United States) published between 1951 and 2010, employing
one of the 115 specified tests from German-speaking countries with
English translation (see above).
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Saskia Naescher*, Gabriel Schui, & Günter Krampen
Fig. 1: Percentage of psychology literature publications with German authorship in English language from 1951-2010 (PSYNDEX Literature)
Fig. 2: Number of German test developments vs. German-language adaptions of Anglo-American tests in published German psychology tests from 1951-2010 (PSYNDEX Tests)
Fig. 5: Number of research studies from English- vs. German-speaking countries employing test developments from German-speaking countries (PsycINFO)
Fig. 4: Percentage of test developments from German-speaking countries with and without English translation
0 100 200 300 400 500 600
1951-1960
1961-1970
1971-1980
1981-1990
1991-2000
2001-2010
En
Ge
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
1951-1960 1961-1970 1971-1980 1981-1990 1991-2000 2001-2010
0
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100
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300
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86
266
211
272 268
11
11 38 47 85
66
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German-language test developments Adaptions of Anglo-american tests
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
No English translation English translation
Fig. 3: Percentages of test developments from German-speaking countries with and without English translation from 1951-2010 (PSYNDEX Tests)
No En En
10 %
90 %
